Hi! My name is Capri. The animal I chose for science is...

The Atlantic Puffin!!! Enjoy! ;)

Food Chain
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Info

The Atlantic Puffin is very small the average fully grown adult is only 10 inches tall!

It is a carnivore, it only eats small fish like herring or sand eels.
The average life span for the atlantic puffin is 20 years.
It only weighs 17.5 oz (500 g)
Its wing span is only 47 to 63 centimetres.
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Kingdom:
Animali
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Alcidae
Genus:
Fratercula
Species:
F. arctica

Definitions of Classifications

  • Animalia=Animal
  • Chordata=The spinal chorde is located down your back
  • Aves=Bird
  • Charadriiformes=Large diverse order of aquatic birds foundalong sea costs and inland waters
  • Alcidae=Webbed footed diving seabirds of northern seas
  • Fratercula=Puffins
  • F. artica= Scientific name for the Atlantic puffin

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  • Blue=Breeding range
  • Black=Southern extent of summer range
  • Red=Southern extent of winter range
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Baby Atlantic Puffin!
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Task 1.

a. Explain your Living Thing in terms of the four characteristics...

The four characteristics for the Atlantic Puffins are they have more than one different cell, they have webbed feet,they have black and white feathers, they have a colourful beak and they have a triangluar shape above their eyes.

They grow, when they are born their very small, but then they start growing and growing and eventually they get to the adult size.

They reproduce, by making more and more puffins so that their race can continue on.

They respawned, if you push them lightly they will start to tip but then they will shift to regain their balance.


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b. How does your LT meet its needs for air, water, shelter and food?
The puffins meet their needs for ~
air: they are land animals so that means that they can breath
water: they can fly which means that they are able to get to a water
source faster
shelter: they build nests and they can hide in caves or under rocks
food: they catch small fish with their beaks





Puffin Video!!!